Month: October 2004

  • a little gift

    “We want people to think ‘terrorism’ for the last four days,” said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. “And anything that raises the issue in people’s minds is good for us.”

    A senior GOP strategist added, “anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush.”

    He called it “a little gift,” saying it helps the President but doesn’t guarantee his reelection.

    My take: I think that pretty much sums everything Bush.


  • VOTE Kerry


  • Hi. I’m Osama. I did 9/11, Not Saddam.

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    Shouldn’t this guy be dead?


  • Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry

    Download the entire film…

    Direct Links:
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    Download FTP 1 FTP 2 FTP 3

    I recomend right click save target as. Its like 620 MB… (If you have a slow connection DONT BOTHER)

    BUY THE FILM ON DVD

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  • Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth

    Neverforget

    Great use of video…

    Snip from the internetvetsfortruth.org site:

    Subject: The Rumors On the Internets Are True!

    The INTERNETS VETERANS FOR TRUTH have launched a new pre-election campaign, “Never Forget,” at internetvetsfortruth.org in an effort to educate the voting public prior to the November 2nd election.

    The website features documentary content highlighting the records of both George W. Bush and John Kerry. The Internets Veterans for truth invite you to view this documentary evidence as well as to enjoy the social and political commentary of Jon Stewart, Eminem, and others.

    We know the rumors on the Internets are true. We invite you to visit and decide for yourself. And please, pass this on to our fellow Americans. Let’s blogroll.


  • CASE CLOSED! Missing explosives ON TAPE. White powder explodes in Bush’s face!

    Oops. Looks like those embeds with the 101st in Iraq got pictures of the very same high explosives that later went missing. All of it captured on tape (.mov) by the Minneapolis/St. Paul ABC affiliate.


    The explosives were there. Now they’re in the hands of terrorists.

    Thanks Don. Thanks George. You’re getting our people killed.

    Update: You want IAEA seals? Well, KSTP has IAEA seals.

    This is it folks. Conclusive proof. Case closed.

    Time for Bush to explain how his war planning gifted terrorists with (at least) 760,000 pounds of high explosives to use against our troops and god knows who else.

    VIA Daily Kos


  • Lie Girls…

    Oh my god this is HILARIOUS


  • An Introduction to Cluster Ballooning

    An Introduction to Cluster Ballooning


  • Clueless People Love Bush

    The following was taken from HERE.

    Studies show Bush supporters are misled on Bush policies and the news
    by Molly Ivins

    Editors note: Last month, workingforchange ran a piece by comedian Will Durst entitled Stupid people love Bush. Unlike that piece — which was satirical — this piece is factual.

    Oh, you sweet, innocent, carefree citizens in non-swing states. You have no idea how much fun and slime you are missing.

    In the swingers, wolves stalk us mercilessly (as the pro-wolf lobby points out indignantly, no one has ever been killed by wolves on U.S. soil, but try arguing that in the face of the relentless new TV ad campaign). Breaking news everywhere — 380 tons of high explosives in Iraq left unattended, stock market down to year’s low, leading economic indicators down, more tragedy in Iraq, the Swift Boat Liars are back, more Halliburton scandal, George Tenet says the war in Iraq is “wrong” — it feels like you’re dodging meteorites here in the Final Days.

    Actually, the best evidence suggests we need to slow way down and go way back, because far from being able to take in anything new, it turns out many of our fellow citizens, especially Bush supporters, are stuck like bugs in amber in some early misperceptions that have never been cleared up.

    It seems the majority of Bush supporters, according to recent polls, still believe Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda and even to 9-11, and that the United States found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Many of you are asking how that could possibly be, since everybody knows…

    But everybody doesn’t know. There it is. And if you are wondering why everybody doesn’t know, you can either blame it on the media, always a shrewd move, or take notice that the administration is STILL spreading this same misinformation.

    Both Donald Rumsfeld and Bush have publicly acknowledged there is no evidence of any links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. However, as Dick Cheney campaigns, a standard part of his stump speech is the accusation that Saddam Hussein “had a relationship” with Al Qaeda or “has long-established ties to Al Qaeda.” He makes this claim up to the present day. The 9-11 Commission, however, found that there was “no collaborative relationship” between the two.

    Cheney, of course, also has never given up his touching faith that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, recently referring to a “nuclear” program that had in fact been abandoned shortly after the first Gulf War. Bush and Cheney misled the country into war using these two false premises, and it turns out an enormous number of our fellow citizens still believe both of them to be true. It’s not because they’re stupid, but because an administration they trust is still telling them both phony propositions are true.

    Normally, when you get a situation like that — where people are simply not acknowledging reality — it is considered a cult, a form of groupthink based on irrational beliefs propagated by what is normally a charismatic leader. So those Kerry volunteers earnestly engaging Bush supporters on the latest outrage are way off base. They need to go all the way back to the Two Great Lies that got us into this: Many American soldiers marching into Iraq believed it was “payback for 9-11.”

    A third slightly blinding fact (to me) is that more people now think Kerry behaved shamefully in regards to Vietnam than did W. Bush. Incredible what brazen lying will do, isn’t it?

    A friend of Bush’s dad got him into the “champagne unit” of the Texas Air National Guard, a unit packed with the sons of the privileged trying to stay out of Vietnam, and he failed to complete his service there. Kerry is a genuine, bona fide war hero. The men who served on his boat are supporting him for president, but those who didn’t serve with him, who weren’t there, who don’t know what happened, have been given more credence. Wolves will get you!

    In further unhappy evidence of how ill-informed the American people are (blame the media), the Program on International Policy Attitudes found Bush supporters consistently ill-informed about Bush’s stands on the issues (Kerry-ans, by contrast, are overwhelmingly right about his positions). Eighty-seven percent of Bush supporters think he favors putting labor and environmental standards into international trade agreements. Eighty percent of Bush supporters believe Bush wants to participate in the treaty banning landmines. Seventy-six percent of Bush supporters believe Bush wants to participate in the treaty banning nuclear weapons testing. Sixty-two percent believe Bush would participate in the International Criminal Court. Sixty-one percent believe Bush wants to participate in the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. Fifty-three percent does not believe Bush is building a missile defense system, a.k.a. “Star Wars.”

    The only two Bush stands the majority of his supporters got right were on increasing defense spending and who should write the new Iraqi constitution.

    Kerry supporters, by contrast, know their man on seven out of eight issues, with only 43 percent understanding he wants to keep defense spending the same but change how the money is spent, and 57 percent believing he wants to up it.

    So what’s going on here? I do not think Kerry people are smarter than Bush people, so why are they better-informed? Maybe a small percentage of ideological right-wingers don’t believe anything the Establishment media say, but I don’t think this is a matter of not believing what they hear, but of not hearing what’s factual.

    The great triumph of the political right in this country has been the creation of a network of alternative media. There are people who listen to Rush Limbaugh for more hours every day than the Branch Davidians listened to David Koresh. Watch Fox News, read The Washington Times — hey, that’s what the Bush administration does, according to its own words.

    But it’s not just the right-wing media purveying lies — they are quoting the administration. These misimpressions come directly from the Bush administration, still, over and over.

    VIA Way Down Here VIA Common Dreams


  • Who to blame for the missing explosives? Hmm….

    Statement from Joe Lockhart on Bush Campaign’s Latest Excuse for Missing Explosives

    Washington, DC – Kerry-Edwards advisor Joe Lockhart issued the following statement today:

    “Early this morning, we learned the Bush campaign’s latest strategy for dealing with the missing explosives in Iraq. Today, the Bush campaign booked its number one surrogate and convention keynoter, Rudy Guiliani, on America’s top rated morning show and his message was clear, simple and incredible. He said:

    “‘The actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn’t they search carefully enough?’

    This is just the latest example of the excuse presidency where the buck stops any place but the Oval Office.”

    Via Rapid Response Center Kerry Blog…

    Kerry on Missing Explosives and Bush’s Excuses:

    “This week’s revelations about the missing explosives speaks to the president’s continuing misjudgments in Iraq. According to the commanders on the ground, our forces were not ordered to secure a weapons dump in Iraq where 380 tons of explosives were stored. Now, the president’s former chief weapons inspector says it’s likely that these explosives are being used against our own troops. The president’s shifting explanations and excuses demonstrate, once again, that this president believes the buck stops anywhere but his desk.